{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Conversations with scientists","title":"Creative grit: the Global South takes on COVID-19, Episode 2","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4e4188ee\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1904,"description":"I asked Dr. Leo Poon, who co-directs the Hong Kong University Pasteur Research Pole, if he has a fleet of private jets. He does not. But he wishes he did. He and his team have helped colleagues all over the world on COVID-19. He and his team developed a diagnostic assay quite soon after the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 became known. His is the lab that detected and identified  SARS, the outbreak in 2003. And many other viruses. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/k0Orik2WqB8-igzXoAcvQNvK40_3P1YZnIC77AH8N_M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEwMjQ2LzE2MDQ0/MjUyMjctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}